In the days leading up to the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 2009, BAK, Utrecht hosts the 1st Former West Congress, which gathers some of the most influential curators, artists, theorists, and thinkers of the past two decades from the field of art. This is the first major public program of the long-term, multifaceted international research, education, publishing, and exhibition project Former West (20082013).